Improvement in gate-latches



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E. EDWARD EARLL, OF BROOKLYN, AND J. B. HUNTER, OE NEYlT YORK, N. Y.

Letters PatmttNo. 104,287, dated June 14,1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN GATE-LATCHES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent andmaking part of Vthe same.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known. that we, E. EDWARD EARLL, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York,

and J. B. HUNTER, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gate-Latch; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the arttc make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in self-locking apparatus for door, gate, and other similar latches,

and designed also to prevent the sagging of the gates, doors, Src., and consists in arranging the roller and inclined ways at suoli a distance below the latchingdevice thatthe latter will prevent the gate being raised by cattle. l

Figure lrepresents a front elevation of a gate-latch provided with my improvement.

'lhe said bracket projects over the upper surface of the button, and prevents thevgate from vbeing opened -by raising up to throw the latch ont ofthe-notch, as

is often done'by pigs or other animals when the latch is arranged according to the common constructicn. A,j-

The catch for the latch B is in the top ofthis bracket F, which is provided at each side of the notch for the latch with weighted hinged dogs H, which are pressed down by the weight of the latch when moving into the notch, sothat the end of the latch will be,"

lower than the wa l on the opposite side, to prevent the latch from' jumping over the notch when the gate shuts quickly.

When the gate is being closed the wheel C engages with the segment A, and rolls up the curvature ofthe latter, thereby receiving the weight of thatxside of the gate, taking it oli' the hinges, and measnrably preventing the gate from sagging.

Having thus described our invention,

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letl ters Patent, is-

The wheel C and segment A, when arranged directly belcwthe latch, so that the wheel and latching device combine to prevent the gate from being raised and opened, as herein shown and described.

The above specilica'tion of our invention signed by us'this 3d day of May, 1869.

E. EDWD. EARLL. J. B. HUNTER.

fitnessesz FRANK BLooKLEY, C. L. TOPLIFF. 

